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The biographies of Robert McBride and Dimitri Tsafendas share a curious resonance
Although the two men were from different generations, their lives both lay bare the atrocities of the apartheid state
The night McBride and friends blew up Magoo’s Bar
‘Robert McBride: The Struggle Continues’ is published by Tafelberg. This is an excerpt from the book
South Africa: Land of apocriphiars
The uniform of Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring became greener as the victorious allies approached Berlin, according to Hitler’s architect Albert Speer, until it began to look…
Return to District Six
The once-powerful PW Botha wasn’t in Cape Town on Wednesday when former president Nelson Mandela handed over new house keys to octogenarian former residents of District Six. It…
Beware such care
Does AmeriCare? I ask, because President George W Bush was meant to visit four African countries this past week, including South Africa, but suddenly his diary became chocked-up…